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The SpartansCode: 40374327
- Author: Andrew J. Bayliss
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Μορφή: Hard Cover
- Έτος έκδοσης: 2020
- Αριθμός σελίδων: 192
- Κωδικός ISBN-13: 9780198853084
- Διαστάσεις: 14×21
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Description
The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a unique society, considered an enigma. The Spartans who fought for freedom against the Persians called themselves 'equals' or peers, but their equality was reliant on the ruthless exploitation of the indigenous population known as helots. The Spartans' often bizarre rules and practices have the capacity to horrify as much they do to fascinate us today. Athenian writers were intrigued and appalled in equalmeasure by a society where weak or disabled babies were said to have been examined carefully by state officials before being dumped off the edge of a cliff. Even today their lurid stories have shaped our image of Sparta; a society in which cowards were forced to shave off half their beards, to dressdifferently from their peers, and who were ultimately shunned to the extent that suicide seemed preferable. Equally appalling to us today is the brutal krypteia, a Spartan rite of passage where teenagers were sent into the countryside armed with a knife and ordered to eliminate the biggest and most dangerous helots. But the truth behind these stories of the exotic other can be hard to discover, lost amongst the legend of Sparta which was even perpetuated by later Spartans, who ran a thrivingtourist industry that exaggerated the famed brutality of their ancestors.
Specifications
- Genre
- World History
- Language
- English
- Format
- Hard Cover
- Number of Pages
- 192
- Publication Date
- 2020
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
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